An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience (1881)
Scott, G. Gilbert (George Gilbert), 1839-1897 · London, Simpkin, Marshall and co. · leaf 226
from the doorways with whichthese reredos walls are pierced—as here, at St. Albans, atChristchurch, Hants, at Westminster, and at Durham. Theobject of these doorways was to permit of the carrying out ofthe old english rite, which enjoined the aspersion and theincensing of the altar upon all its… … THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 14? regard it—was never naturalised, for there the tra-ditions of the primitive church have ever beenreligiously conserved. As to what were the arrangements of the highaltar we have no evidence. Probably there wasabove it, as at Canterbury and elsewhere,…
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